The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-07
GENERAL NEWS.


GENERAL NEWS.
The Chicago board Of trade re-elect-
ed A. M. Wright president.
Omaha erected 1900 new buildings
last year, at cost OF $5,024.0OO.
Trains are again crossing the Mis-
souri, river at Sioux City on The ice.
Baron ven Oppelselr, the Austrian
astronomer, expired in Vienna at the
age of As.
The people of Greenfield, Ind, have
made up purse Of 81 800 with which
to drill for gas.
BY the derailing of Fort Wayne
train near Darlington, Pa, six persons
were painfully injured.
The Pennsylvania company has ar
ranged to heat two hundred Of its
freight-cars with oil-st0ves.
Judge Samuel I. Greer died suddenly
at Decatur. ILL.,, where he had been ON
the bench for twenty-five years.
The Dolores Land and Cattle COM
pany of Texas has made an assign
ment to secure debts Of $500, 900.
Charles Godfrey, q son of the chief
of the Miami Indians, living near
Wabash, Ind, killed himself with a
shotgun.
A jury at Philadelphia acquitted
fel0niously assaulting Mrs. Mary
Coulston.
So firm is the ice in the st. Lawrence
ston and Cape Vincent, distance Of
twelve miles.
Sharp earthquakes were felt Tuesday
morning at Charleston and Summer
vile, 3. c., but no damage to build
ings resulted.
A son of ex-President Hayes was
married Thursday to Miss Sherman, of
Newark, o., q niece Of Judge l.. Il.
Otis, of Chicago.
The thermometer dropped TO 22o in
sections of Northern Florida Tuesday
morning. Orange trees ia exposed
places were damaged.
Mrs. Boulanger, Of DonaldsOnville,
La, who kept a large amount of money
secreted in her house, was on Saturday
killed by an unknown tramp.
A special grand Jury at Columbus,
o., found trne bill against five citi-
zens for altering tally-sheetS at the
election held fifteen months ago.
Justin A. Jacobs, for the past thirty
years city clerk ut Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, committed suicide rather
than have it known that he was de-
faulter for $4,000.
Owing to q strike Of d0ckhands at
Port johnson and ElizabethpOrt, the
mines in the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) district
have been closed, throwing out of en-
ployment {, 100 persons.
Reports from the New England
fisheries show that the past year was
very disastrous one. Twenty-six YES
sells were lost, valued at $l52, 900, and
1877 persons were drowned.
John 8. Newberry, whose death at
Detroit is reported, was interested in
railway, steamboat, and banking en-
terprises to the extent of SO 600 900.
He served one term in Congress.
Ex- Governor Robinson, of Massa-
chusetls, will not permit his name to
be used in connection with the Senator
ial election. Ex-Governor Long is the
candidate of the foes of Senator
Dawes.
The Indiana Supreme court affirmed
the decision OF the lower court in the
tenant-governorship case. in effect
declaring that Green Smith. The Demo
cratic claimant, had no standing in
court.
Wittrock, Haight. and Weaver, the
express robbers, pleaded guilty Tues
day at st. Louis. and were sentenced;
Wittrock and Haight to seven years
each, and Weaver to five years in the
penitentiary.
Milton Tootle, one of the leading
citizens of western Missouri, died Sun
day at st. Joseph from paralysis, at
the age OF ga. He had nearly 81, Co.,
600 invested in cattle ranches and dry
goods stores.
Charles Z. Wheeler. formerly Of
Bloomington, Illinois. was arrested at
Wiliimantic, Connecticut, for grand
larceny, on q requisition from Gov
ernor Oglesby. He was loan agent
for eastern people.
The judges of twenty-one counties
IN the dr0ught-aflicted region of